Shrimp chips are really hard to find over here in the US or at least they are here in Portland Oregon. I have to go to a special oriental grocery store to get mine. I got introduced to them when I was stationed in England in the Marine Corps. I absolutely love them I just wish they were easier to get.

I’d say you’re four for four. It doesn’t sound like he actually ate the Kudu poop. Putting something into your mouth and spitting it out, doesn’t count in my books. So give yourself an extra pat on the back, you achieved a perfect score, you are the master.

The only strange critter I’ve managed to eat has been jellyfish. It is just like you would imagine, like flavorless jello that has been left out on the Tundra for months to toughen up. It seemed like the most pointless unsatisfying food you could manage to choke down.

One of the few non-technical books in my office is "Unmentionable Cuisine" by Calvin W. Schwabe. Chapter titles include: Horsemeat, Dog and Cat meat, Rodent and other Mammalian Meat, Small Birds, Reptiles, Amphibians, Eels and Lampreys, Insects and Other Land Invertebrates, and Milk, Eggs and Fish.

This reminds me of a community in the deep woods of Mississippi called Providence where my dad was the Methodist minister. They had an annual event which could be accurately described as a celebration of our place in the food chain, but we always called it the Varmit Eat. A carnivore’s delight involving much frying, barbequeing, and roasting of a wide variety of meats. I recall beef, pork, venison, goat, rabbit, squirrel, (o)possum, checken, dove, quail, frog legs, rattlesnake, and alligator. And it was all quite tasty.

Shrimp chips are huge here in The Netherlands. You can buy them normal, chili, whatever. Eaten a *lot* with Chinese food, which from what I understand, is more like a special Dutch version of Chinese food.

I assume "shrimp chips" are what’s known as "prawn crackers" here Down Under in Oz – little pink things you fry in oil or put in the microwave and they expand into big pink things that crackle on your tongue?